There is evidence of this influence in a great many examples of the work of Flemish, German, English, and Spanish cabinet makers. Some of these are worthy of mention, and will repay a careful examination. One of them is a corner cupboard of rosewood, inlaid with engraved silver, part of the design being a shield with the arms of an Elector of Cologne; there is also a pair of somewhat similar cabinets from the Bishop's Palace at Salzburg. These are of German work, early eighteenth century, and have evidently been designed after Boule's productions. The shape and the gilt mounts of a secretaire of walnutwood with inlay of ebony and ivory, and some other furniture also, which, with the specimens just described, may be seen in the Bethnal Green Museum, all manifest the influence of the French school, when the bombé-fronted commodes and the curved lines of chairs and tables came into fashion. Having described somewhat in detail the styles which prevailed and some of the changes which occurred in France, from the time of Louis XIV. until the Revolution, it is unnecessary, for the purposes of this sketch, to do more than briefly refer to the work of those countries which may be said to have adopted, to a greater or less extent, French designs. For reasons already stated, an exception is made in the case of our own country; and the following chapter will be devoted to the furniture designed and made by some of the English craftsmen of the latter half of the eighteenth century. Of Italy it may be observed generally that the Renaissance of Raffaelle, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michael Angelo, which we have seen became degenerate towards the end of the sixteenth century, relapsed still further during the period which we have just been discussing; and, although the freedom and grace of the Italian carving, and the elaboration of inlaid arabesques, must always have some merit of their own, the work of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Italy will compare very unfavourably with that of the earlier period of the Renaissance. [Illustration: A NORSE INTERIOR, SHEWING CHAIRS OF DUTCH DESIGN. PERIOD: LATE XVII. OR EARLY XVIII. CENTURY.]